The XP Pro machines in the computer labs are fairly well locked down. And student usage is monitored by staff that's walking around the lab. Non-tightened-down Windows installations are run from within VMWare, on stations in a section of the intranet that has special firewall filter rules on it.
The student accessible Linux machines on campus (grccsql and raider) can be connected to remotely (Through telnet, not ssh. AUGH!), so monitoring them live is prohibitively expensive in manpower, if not technically impossible. We used to have a Linux box for the sys admin class where every student in the class had root access. That was a nightmare.
Only students enrolled in specific classes have access to either of the two student-accessible Linux machines on campus. Shell access is a security risk, no matter how you slice it.
No, but the file size is usually a lot smaller than the PCM output. I've never encountered a counterexample, though one file did come close. It was about a minute long, but had 8MB of samples packed into it. That means the file was about 80% of the size of what the output WAV file would be.
For those that aren't familiar with module formats, here's a simple description: Take a MIDI file and include sound files to serve as your instruments. The sound files don't have to be traditional musical instruments (or even traditional MIDI instruments.)... I've even got one file that holds non-repeating lyrics.
At Grand Rapids Community College, we have what we call the Raider Card. It's a sort of debit card that works for on-campus services like parking and some vendine machines. (I believe Subway, Quiet Cafe, the cafeteria, and Art & Bev's are going to support it come January.)
We student workers (GRCC students employed by GRCC) get a credit on our Raider Cards every pay day, independant from our paycheck. It's intended to replace our old parking credit system, but it's still available for my daily vending-machine-provided breakfast.:)
In the Computer Applications Department, the classes that teach Windows and Linux use VMWare to provide students with a preconfigured sandbox. (Which is awesome for us student tutors who tutor those subjects...the lab PCs are generally locked down to the point where a lot of the functionality taught in the classes is unavailable.)
Blackboard modules are available to all classes and instructors, and are used extensively in many of those classes. Blackboard modules are also used by sanctioned student organizations as an online meeting place under the control of the college.
eGRCC is a web interface for students and staff to both class registration and for employment history. I can look at my transcript and at my paycheck history through the same interface.
Novell is used to provide a web interface to student email.
The best compression ratio I've seen was (I think) an XM that I tried to expand to a WAV file to re-encode as an MP3. The original file was under 400k. Unfortunately, my filesystem doesn't support files larger than 2GB.
At first, FF1.0 on XPPro didn't seem vulnerable. However, that was when I middle-clecked on the link to Citibank's page. (To open it in a new tab, as opposed to a new window.
When I clicked on the link "normally," i.e. with the left mouse button, the vulnerability showed up.
So it seems that FireFox's tabbed browsing capability has some security benefit.
That's what I did for a presentation in front of class last night...unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to make it fullscreen in Adobe Acrobat. So I used the PowerPoint presentation I'd saved. (From within OOo on my Linux box at home, mind you.)
Thanks to some sort of crosstalk between the USB and audio portions of my Via 686C southbridge, I can recognize, for example, how fast the mouse is moving.
Also, at one point during the Cold War, the American Embassy in Russia had all sorts of bugs that picked up transmissions from typists' keyboards. Or so I heard on the History Channel a few years ago... I can't find an article about it now.
Hehe. I'm still trying to get Linux working under Bochs under Linux on my 750MHz Duron. I think I'll try a Knoppix liveCD and let it boot over the weekend.
The first time I read Slashdot, I signed up an account. Then I left, forgot my password, and signed up another acount. Used that account for a long, long time, then got pissed at Slashdot, left for a few months, and came back. (I admit it, I'm addicted.) I decided to use Slashdot's, "I forgot my password" feature to get the password to my old account. So here I am.:)
You might not have been old enough to appreciate DS9. I certainly wasn't. However, at 21, I thoroughly enjoy watching the seasons on DVD. (Though I have noticed an annoying motion blur in the MPEG encoding. It's distracting.
Voyager on DVD is OK, but nothing to write home about. I'm looking forward to the Enterprise release on DVD.
(In case everyone's wondering why I watch everything on DVD, it's because I don't have cable, or even an antenna. But twelve-hour-marathons of my favorite TV shows is more than enough.:)
In your response to a comment titled "Usenet," from the previous interview, you make it quite clear that people hating you for being Wesley pisses you off. Do you have anything in particular to say to the people who like you for being Wesley?
Not slow, quick. Very quick. But not original.
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I wonder if they're intentionally being slow about it, in order to make a PR claim of "millions of dollars in lost revenue."
There's no logical reason for them not to have fixed it yet, and the "not taking steps to mitigate damages" point probably applies again. (Remember when they "weren't aware" that the Linux source code could be downloaded from their servers?)
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The XP Pro machines in the computer labs are fairly well locked down. And student usage is monitored by staff that's walking around the lab. Non-tightened-down Windows installations are run from within VMWare, on stations in a section of the intranet that has special firewall filter rules on it.
The student accessible Linux machines on campus (grccsql and raider) can be connected to remotely (Through telnet, not ssh. AUGH!), so monitoring them live is prohibitively expensive in manpower, if not technically impossible. We used to have a Linux box for the sys admin class where every student in the class had root access. That was a nightmare.
Only students enrolled in specific classes have access to either of the two student-accessible Linux machines on campus. Shell access is a security risk, no matter how you slice it.
No, but the file size is usually a lot smaller than the PCM output. I've never encountered a counterexample, though one file did come close. It was about a minute long, but had 8MB of samples packed into it. That means the file was about 80% of the size of what the output WAV file would be.
For those that aren't familiar with module formats, here's a simple description: Take a MIDI file and include sound files to serve as your instruments. The sound files don't have to be traditional musical instruments (or even traditional MIDI instruments.)... I've even got one file that holds non-repeating lyrics.
At Grand Rapids Community College, we have what we call the Raider Card. It's a sort of debit card that works for on-campus services like parking and some vendine machines. (I believe Subway, Quiet Cafe, the cafeteria, and Art & Bev's are going to support it come January.)
:)
We student workers (GRCC students employed by GRCC) get a credit on our Raider Cards every pay day, independant from our paycheck. It's intended to replace our old parking credit system, but it's still available for my daily vending-machine-provided breakfast.
In the Computer Applications Department, the classes that teach Windows and Linux use VMWare to provide students with a preconfigured sandbox. (Which is awesome for us student tutors who tutor those subjects...the lab PCs are generally locked down to the point where a lot of the functionality taught in the classes is unavailable.)
Blackboard modules are available to all classes and instructors, and are used extensively in many of those classes. Blackboard modules are also used by sanctioned student organizations as an online meeting place under the control of the college.
eGRCC is a web interface for students and staff to both class registration and for employment history. I can look at my transcript and at my paycheck history through the same interface.
Novell is used to provide a web interface to student email.
Yeah, they can loop. But I had the player set to run through a loop once. The song's run time is finite, but it's over 200 minutes.
(44.1kHz 16-bit stereo is about equivalent to 10MB/minute. So 200 minutes works out approximately to 2GB.)
I prefer MOD, S3M, XM and IT, myself.
The best compression ratio I've seen was (I think) an XM that I tried to expand to a WAV file to re-encode as an MP3. The original file was under 400k. Unfortunately, my filesystem doesn't support files larger than 2GB.
At first, FF1.0 on XPPro didn't seem vulnerable. However, that was when I middle-clecked on the link to Citibank's page. (To open it in a new tab, as opposed to a new window.
When I clicked on the link "normally," i.e. with the left mouse button, the vulnerability showed up.
So it seems that FireFox's tabbed browsing capability has some security benefit.
Oh, shut up. That was my grandparents computer. If they'd let me put a different OS on it, I would.
I'm tired, iritable, and haven't been home all week. Give me a break.
No issue here...FF1.0, WinME. (On this box, anyway. I'll try it on XP Pro tomorrow at work.)
If I'm not mistaken, that's a reference to Kevin and Kell.
That's what I did for a presentation in front of class last night...unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to make it fullscreen in Adobe Acrobat. So I used the PowerPoint presentation I'd saved. (From within OOo on my Linux box at home, mind you.)
Thanks to some sort of crosstalk between the USB and audio portions of my Via 686C southbridge, I can recognize, for example, how fast the mouse is moving.
Also, at one point during the Cold War, the American Embassy in Russia had all sorts of bugs that picked up transmissions from typists' keyboards. Or so I heard on the History Channel a few years ago... I can't find an article about it now.
There'd be voter encouragement, too. A certain sense of, "Oh my god! my candidate is losing, and I haven't voted yet!"
Hehe. I'm still trying to get Linux working under Bochs under Linux on my 750MHz Duron. I think I'll try a Knoppix liveCD and let it boot over the weekend.
Run it on a slow enough machine, and you'll see a difference. How slow? Try, say, a 200MHz box.
I saw this article in The Mysterious Future, so I googled up this brief page with Choctaw examples.
Personally, I'd like to see some of that grammar come into common usage. At least, on Slashdot.
Looks like Minerva isn't going to be the first to compile a list of experiences, afterall. :)
The first time I read Slashdot, I signed up an account. Then I left, forgot my password, and signed up another acount. Used that account for a long, long time, then got pissed at Slashdot, left for a few months, and came back. (I admit it, I'm addicted.) I decided to use Slashdot's, "I forgot my password" feature to get the password to my old account. So here I am. :)
Notice one of his comments refers to information from the CDC? I suspect it's a reporter looking to raise hits.
I wouldn't be surpised if most of the NYT submitters were reporters, though not all the same one.
That's why I put it in a comment. If I ever want to go back, it's right there in my comment history.
You might not have been old enough to appreciate DS9. I certainly wasn't. However, at 21, I thoroughly enjoy watching the seasons on DVD. (Though I have noticed an annoying motion blur in the MPEG encoding. It's distracting.
:)
Voyager on DVD is OK, but nothing to write home about. I'm looking forward to the Enterprise release on DVD.
(In case everyone's wondering why I watch everything on DVD, it's because I don't have cable, or even an antenna. But twelve-hour-marathons of my favorite TV shows is more than enough.
I'll never forget the first time my bard had sex.
Yes! Another great sig.
Old one was: "I find the command "cat/dev/null > foo" a lot more spiritual, it's like Death coming for your soul." - Rolman
Some of the questions being asked are similar to ones answered in the previous interview. Mod up something else, please.
In your response to a comment titled "Usenet," from the previous interview, you make it quite clear that people hating you for being Wesley pisses you off. Do you have anything in particular to say to the people who like you for being Wesley?
I wonder if they're intentionally being slow about it, in order to make a PR claim of "millions of dollars in lost revenue."
There's no logical reason for them not to have fixed it yet, and the "not taking steps to mitigate damages" point probably applies again. (Remember when they "weren't aware" that the Linux source code could be downloaded from their servers?)